Isaiah 13 NKJV ISV Parallel

◄ Isaiah 13 ►

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1The burden against Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.

1A message that Amoz's son Isaiah received about Babylon:

2“Lift up a banner on the high mountain, Raise your voice to them; Wave your hand, that they may enter the gates of the nobles.

2"Raise a banner on a bare hilltop! Cry out loud to them! Give a wave of the hand, signaling for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

3I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have also called My mighty ones for My anger— Those who rejoice in My exaltation.”

3I myself have commanded my consecrated ones; I have also summoned my warriors, those who rejoice in my triumph, to carry out my angry judgments.

4The noise of a multitude in the mountains, Like that of many people! A tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together! The LORD of hosts musters The army for battle.

4"Listen! There's a noise on the mountains like that of a great multitude! Listen! There's an uproar among the kingdoms, like that of nations massing together! The LORD of the Heavenly Armies is mustering an army for battle.

5They come from a far country, From the end of heaven— The LORD and His weapons of indignation, To destroy the whole land.

5They're coming from a faraway land, from the distant horizon— the LORD and the weapons of his anger— to destroy the entire land."

6Wail, for the day of the LORD is at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

6Wail out loud, because the Day of the LORD is near. It will come like destruction from the Almighty!

7Therefore all hands will be limp, Every man’s heart will melt,

7Because of this, every hand will go limp, and every man's courage will melt.

8And they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows will take hold of them; They will be in pain as a woman in childbirth; They will be amazed at one another; Their faces will be like flames.

8They will be terrified; pain and anguish will seize them; they'll writhe like a woman in labor. They'll look aghast at one another; and their faces will be ablaze with fear.

9Behold, the day of the LORD comes, Cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger, To lay the land desolate; And He will destroy its sinners from it.

9Watch out! The Day of the LORD is coming— cruel, with wrath and fierce anger— to turn the entire inhabited earth into a desolation and to annihilate sinners from it.

10For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.

10For the stars of the heavens and their constellations won't shine their light; the sun will be dark when it rises, and the moon won't shine its light.

11“I will punish the world for its evil, And the wicked for their iniquity; I will halt the arrogance of the proud, And will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.

11I'll punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I'll put an end to the pomposity of the arrogant, and overthrow the insolence of tyrants.

12I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold, A man more than the golden wedge of Ophir.

12I'll make people scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than gold from Ophir.

13Therefore I will shake the heavens, And the earth will move out of her place, In the wrath of the LORD of hosts And in the day of His fierce anger.

13Therefore I'll make the heavens tremble. The earth will shake from its place at the wrath of the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, at the time of his burning anger.

14It shall be as the hunted gazelle, And as a sheep that no man takes up; Every man will turn to his own people, And everyone will flee to his own land.

14They will be like a hunted gazelle, or like sheep with no one to gather them, each will turn to his own people, and each will flee to his own land.

15Everyone who is found will be thrust through, And everyone who is captured will fall by the sword.

15Whoever is captured will be thrust through, and whoever is caught will fall dead, killed by the sword.

16Their children also will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished.

16Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, and their houses will be looted, and their wives slept with.

17“Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, Who will not regard silver; And as for gold, they will not delight in it.

17Watch out! I'm stirring up the Medes against them, who care nothing for silver and take no delight in gold.

18Also their bows will dash the young men to pieces, And they will have no pity on the fruit of the womb; Their eye will not spare children.

18Their bows will dash the young men to pieces; they'll show no pity on those not yet born, and their eyes will not spare children.

19And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, Will be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.

19Babylon, that jewel of kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah, when God overthrew them—

20It will never be inhabited, Nor will it be settled from generation to generation; Nor will the Arabian pitch tents there, Nor will the shepherds make their sheepfolds there.

20It will never be inhabited or lived in through all generations; no Bedouin will pitch his tent there; no shepherds will make their flocks lie down there.

21But wild beasts of the desert will lie there, And their houses will be full of owls; Ostriches will dwell there, And wild goats will caper there.

21But desert beasts will lie down there, and their houses will be full of howling creatures; there owls will dwell, and goat-demons will dance there.

22The hyenas will howl in their citadels, And jackals in their pleasant palaces. Her time is near to come, And her days will not be prolonged.”

22Hyenas will howl in its strongholds, and jackals will make their dens in its citadels. Its time is close at hand, and its days will not be extended any further.

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